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Psalm 78

¹Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
²I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
³Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
⁴We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
⁵For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
⁶That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
⁷That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
⁸And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
⁹The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
¹⁰They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
¹¹And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
¹²Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
¹³He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
¹⁴In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
¹⁵He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
¹⁶He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
¹⁷And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
¹⁸And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
¹⁹Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
²⁰Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
²¹Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
²²Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
²³Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
²⁴And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
²⁵Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.
²⁶He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
²⁷He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
²⁸And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
²⁹So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
³⁰They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
³¹The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
³²For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
³³Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
³⁴When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
³⁵And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
³⁶Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
³⁷For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
³⁸But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
³⁹For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
⁴⁰How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
⁴¹Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
⁴²They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
⁴³How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan.
⁴⁴And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
⁴⁵He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
⁴⁶He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
⁴⁸He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
⁴⁹He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
⁵⁰He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
⁵¹And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
⁵²But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
⁵³And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
⁵⁴And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
⁵⁵He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
⁵⁶Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
⁵⁷But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
⁵⁸For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
⁵⁹When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
⁶⁰So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
⁶¹And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
⁶²He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
⁶³The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
⁶⁵Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
⁶⁶And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
⁶⁷Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
⁶⁹And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
⁷⁰He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
⁷¹From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
⁷²So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

2He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.
²For the Lord hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.
³The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
⁴The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
⁵He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
⁶The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
⁷And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.
⁸But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
⁹Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
¹⁰She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
¹¹Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?
¹²The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
¹³Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
²⁹For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
³⁰Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
³¹What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
³²He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
³³Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
³⁴Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
³⁶As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
³⁷Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
³⁸For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
³⁹Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.